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  1. The Divil and the Angel

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    The Devil and the angel.
    This game is not bad like the last one the apples and oranges. One girl would be the devil and the other would be the angel. Each of them would have a flag a blue or green one. These two would go off to themselves and they would decide which of them would have the green flag and which would have the blue. None of the rest of the girls would no which was which. These two would get together, and face each other. Then one of the crowd would come forward and these two would ask which would she prefer a clue or a green flag. She wouldn't know rightly what to say, but she'd probably say the blue flag. We'll say this was the angels flag. Now she
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Date
    19 April 1936
    Item type
    Lore
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
    Informant